Beavercreek firm wins $9M in defense work

A Dayton-area defense contractor has been awarded additional work from the U.S. Air Force. The deal will result in new hires for the growing firm. Beavercreek-based Defense Engineering Corp., a provider of engineering and product development services, recently signed...
New Micro Lidar Tech

New Micro Lidar Tech

Lidar is a critical method by which robots and autonomous vehicles sense the world around them, but the lasers and sensors generally take up a considerable amount of space. Not so with Voyant Photonics, which has created a lidar system that you really could...
UCLA Prof Faces Prison for Spying

UCLA Prof Faces Prison for Spying

A California-based electrical engineer has been found guilty of attempting to export sensitive military electronics to China and could face more than two centuries behind bars. Yi-Chi Shih, 64—a part-time professor at the University of California, Los Angeles...
Laser Weapons for Fighters?

Laser Weapons for Fighters?

On April 23, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) tested a fiber-optic laser at the White Sands Test Range in New Mexico that successfully shot down“multiple air-launched missiles in flight.” The Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHIELD), pictured here,...
DARPA Modernizes SBIR Program

DARPA Modernizes SBIR Program

Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) are the principal set-aside programs for small business participation in federal research and development funding, yet the requirements for administering and managing these programs...